Inside the Amazon Palace.
Diana's eyes were sparkling as she met the Amazon Queen's gaze naturally. She looked like a female knight with wings gleaming with pride, rather than the princess who was once protected and loved by all the Amazons.
"Mother, when I was a child, didn't you say that humans were the most miraculous, powerful, and limitless artifacts created by the gods?"
She paused and said sincerely, "When I arrived in the human world outside, I was initially filled with hope, but soon became completely disappointed with humanity. So, in reality, I exiled myself, choosing to stay in that world and search for answers within myself."
"Did you find it?" Hippolyta's frown relaxed, and she looked at her only daughter calmly.
"Yes, I understand what you said." Diana smiled slightly: "Xi Nian, he is the miracle I chose, and he is also the answer I want to find."
Hippolyta was silent for a moment, then asked softly, "You have so much confidence in him?"
Diana's heroic eyebrows spread out like sword edges, and she said seriously, "I made this decision because I have confidence in myself."
She gently held her mother's hand and whispered, "Mother, you won't blame me, will you?"
"How could that be." Hippolyta shook her head and looked at her and said, "You are my daughter. No matter what decision you make, I support you."
But at this moment.
From outside the palace gate, General Antiope walked in angrily. As soon as she stepped through the door, she said in a deep voice: "I don't agree!"
"Antiopoe." Hippolyta raised her eyes and looked at her.
"Greetings, Her Majesty!" Antiope knelt on one knee in the palace hall and saluted, then repeated, "I disagree with Her Highness Diana's choice. She is the princess of our Amazon tribe. How can she risk everything on a weak, young human?"
"Antiopoe." Diana was about to speak, but Hippolyta patted the back of her hand and said to Antiopoe, "You are still so hot-tempered. Do you remember when Diana was a child?"
Antiope frowned, not knowing what the queen wanted to say.
Hippolyta whispered, "When Diana was little, she loved to spy on your daily training with the Amazon warriors. Because I loved her so much, I didn't want her to become a warrior, so I reprimanded her many times and publicly forbade Diana from touching weapons."
"But. In the end, she still sneaked off to train with you."
"This!" Antiope opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.
"I think you're well aware of this," Hippolyta said with emotion. "Neither you nor I could influence Diana's childhood, so how could we possibly influence her choices as she grows up? You said she was exceptional, and now this is the decision she's made. How can you question her?"
Antiope was completely silent.
She clenched her fists tightly, then loosened them little by little, and said helplessly: "I, I respect Her Highness Diana's decision."
And from the moment the Amazon Queen Hippolyta and the female general Antiope stopped vetoing her, no one on Paradise Island could question Diana's choice anymore.
This will also indicate that Xinian's identity and status on Paradise Island will rise to the same level as the Amazon Princess Diana.
Diana suddenly said, "Antiop, I have one more thing I want to ask of you. It's about Xi Nian."
Queen Hippolyta was slightly stunned. Isn't it unreliable to entrust the matter of Xi Nian to Antiope?
Antiope raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Highness Diana, please speak."
Diana whispered, "I think, let Xi Nian..."
…
In ancient buildings.
Xi Nian, lying in the small dark room, collapsed on the bed due to hunger. Suddenly, clear footsteps were heard from the corridor outside.
Finally someone is here!
Xinian sat up suddenly, and saw the female guard from before hurried in, holding a set of clothes in her hand: "Your Highness, change quickly, General Antiope wants to see you!"
"Is it time for dinner?" After taking the clothes handed to him by the female guard, Xi Nian took off his shirt without thinking, scaring the female guard so much that she ran out in a panic.
"What's the matter? It's not like I've never seen a man before." Xi Nian muttered to himself, changed into the clothes given to him, and walked out of the ancient building.
Walk out of the long and dark corridor of the ancient building.
When Xi Nian reached the door, he felt like he had seen the light of day again. He glanced down at the clothes he had just changed into. Well, this time, at least, he was wearing proper men's clothing—a brown linen short-sleeved top and long, cuffed trousers for easy movement, also characteristic of ancient Greek clothing.
But, these cropped trousers look like they have been newly modified and sewn, with new threads!
Before Xinian could think about it, a sound of horse hooves and roars was heard in front of him, and a group of female cavalry quickly appeared in front of the ancient building on the edge of the cliff.
The one leading the group riding a black horse was naturally the female general Antiope.
Antiope glanced at Xinian at the door, whispered a few words to the female guard, and then said to the female cavalry behind him, "Leave him a horse."
horse?
Xi Nian looked at a female cavalryman pulling a sturdy and handsome white horse towards him, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
My lord, times have changed!
Can we get some modern means of transportation?
Seeing that Antiope and the female knights were all staring at him, Xinian could only exchange glances with the white horse nearby.
As if she could see his embarrassment, the female guard stepped forward and asked, "Your Highness, may I help you mount your horse?"
"Then I'll leave it to you." Xi Nian was deeply moved, and then he flew away -
He was thrown two or three meters into the air by the female guard and landed on the back of a white horse.
The white horse was frightened and started to move its limbs violently with Xi Nian on its back, and flew out like an arrow.
"Go!" Antiope stomped her feet and led the female cavalry to chase the white horse.
…
Surrounded by the female cavalry, the white horse began to slow down its pace. Xinian on the saddle was still in shock. Fortunately, he grabbed the reins in time, otherwise he would have been thrown out.
After catching his breath while riding on the white horse, Xi Nian discovered that the female cavalry team slowed down not for his sake, but because they had entered the town area of Paradise Island!
The smooth and spacious white stone road winds its way through the mountains, with countless white buildings standing on both sides of the road.
When the female cavalry team led Xinian through the town roads, hundreds and thousands of local residents in white long skirts, and even armed soldiers standing guard in various places, all came to the side of the road and stared at Xinian in the center of the team with strange looks in their eyes.
Xi Nian suddenly had a feeling of being surrounded and scrutinized by relatives including aunts and uncles when he first visited his girlfriend's house.
This is no longer just a group of relatives, but a tribe and a race!
That's not the point.
The key point is, all of them were women! Not a single man! And there weren't any old, faded-looking people! ! !
Xi Nian finally understood why the men's clothing he was wearing was newly sewn. Because men's clothing was not needed on this island.
Paradise Island?
Why not change the name to the Kingdom of Women!